Meet Gabriel Bernardino, chair of the new European pensions authority

Appointment of Portuguese regulator signals continuity is the watchword for insurance and pensions

By

Mark Cobley

January 14, 2011 Updated: 6:54 p.m. GMT

Gabriel Bernardino, a Portuguese financial regulator from that country's Instituto de Seguros de Portugal, was named the first chairman of the EU's newly-minted pensions supervisory authority yesterday. Who is he and what does he think?

The Frankfurt-based regulator, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority or Eiopa, is getting started this month under the EU's new financial-regulation framework.